The National Family Caregiver Support Program serves the caregiver who is responsible for a functionally dependent older adult.  The recipient is someone who is unable to perform at least two activities of daily living or due to cognitive or other mental impairment, requires substantial supervision. WHAT WE DO:

• Respite care for family of elderly, chronically ill or hospice patients.
• Light housekeeping with attention to a clean, safe environment.
• Prompt care receivers to perform activities of daily living.
• Monitor to assure the safety and well-being of care receivers.
• Reminders for self-administration of medications.
• Encourage exercise and leisure activities for client.
• Provide caregiving tips, assistance and individualized training to families.

This is all done through a Care Management team made up of Wyoming Senior Citizens staff, the care provider and the family to insure care that is holistic in nature.  The program will utilize some Senior Companion volunteers and some highly skilled and trained respite workers. The Wyoming Senior Citizens, Inc. Family Caregiver Support Program serves populations in nine Wyoming counties – Natrona, Laramie, Carbon, Goshen, Big Horn, Fremont, Converse, Hot Springs, Washakie.

Older Relative Caregivers (ORC) (In select locations)

The National Family Caregiver Support Program (NFCSP) provides a multifaceted system of support services for Caregivers and for Older Relative Caregivers (ORC). Families are the major provider of long-term care, but research has shown that caregiving enacts a heavy emotional, physical, and financial toll. Many Caregivers and Older Relative Caregivers who work and provide care experience conflicts between these responsibilities.

• Older Relative Caregivers or older individuals, age 55 or older, who are relative Caregivers who provide care for children, 17 and younger, and adults, 18 to 59, with disabilities. Parents, biological or adoptive, age 55 or older are eligible if providing care to their adult child(ren) who are 18 to 59 with disabilities.

• Older individuals providing care to individuals with disabilities, including children with disabilities; 

• Caregivers who are older individuals with greatest social and economic need (with particular attention to low-income older individuals); and 

• Family Caregivers who provide care for individuals, of any age, with Alzheimer’s disease, Dementia and related disorders with neurological and organic brain dysfunction

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Eschel Everitt, NFCSP Manager

106 West Adams Avenue

Riverton, WY  82501

307-856-6880

800-856-4398

fcrmgr@wyoming.com